noun
Meaning 1
One who researches.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
researcher
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈsɜː.t͡ʃə/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɹiː.sɜː.t͡ʃə/
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General-American: /ˈɹiˌsɝ.t͡ʃɚ/
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General-American: /ɹiˈsɝ.t͡ʃɚ/
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rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)t͡ʃə(ɹ)
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CMU ARPABET: R IY1 S ER0 CH ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
a scientist who devotes himself to doing research
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: research worker, investigator
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: scientist
Narrower terms: experimenter, boffin, fieldworker, postdoc, post doc
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re- Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der. Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos)bor. Latin circus Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh2yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h2tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Late Latin circō Old French cerchier Old French recerchier Middle French French rechercher English research Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English researcher From research + -er.
Across languages
Translations
120 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: studiues — one who researches
- Arabic: بَاحِث (bāḥiṯ) — one who researches
- Arabic: بَاحِثَة (bāḥiṯa) — one who researches
- Armenian: հետազոտող (hetazotoġ) — one who researches
- Azerbaijani: tədqiqatçı — one who researches
- Basque: ikertzailea — one who researches
- Basque: ikerlari — one who researches
- Belarusian: дасле́дчык (dasljédčyk) — one who researches
- Belarusian: дасле́дчыца (dasljédčyca) — one who researches
- Belarusian: дасле́днік (dasljédnik) — one who researches
- Belarusian: дасле́дніца (dasljédnica) — one who researches
- Bulgarian: изсле́довател (izslédovatel) — one who researches
- Bulgarian: изсле́дователка (izslédovatelka) — one who researches
- Burmese: သုတေသီ (su.tesi) — one who researches
- Catalan: investigador — one who researches
- Chinese Mandarin: 研究員 /研究员 (yánjiūyuán) — one who researches
- Chinese Mandarin: 研究者 (yánjiūzhě) — one who researches
- Czech: výzkumník — one who researches
- Czech: výzkumnice — one who researches
- Czech: badatel — one who researches
- Czech: badatelka — one who researches
- Danish: forsker — one who researches
- Dutch: onderzoeker — one who researches
- Estonian: teadur — one who researches
- Estonian: uurija — one who researches
- Finnish: tutkija — one who researches
- French: chercheur — one who researches
- French: chercheuse — one who researches
- Galician: investigador — one who researches
- Georgian: მკვლევარი (mḳvlevari) — one who researches
- German: Forscher — one who researches
- German: Forscherin — one who researches
- Greek: ερευνητής (erevnitís) — one who researches
- Gujarati: સંશોધક (sãśodhak) — one who researches
- Hindi: शोधकर्ता (śodhkartā) — one who researches
- Hindi: शोधक (śodhak) — one who researches
- Hindi: शोधार्थी (śodhārthī) — one who researches
- Hungarian: kutató — one who researches
- Icelandic: fræðimaður — one who researches
- Icelandic: rannsóknarmaður — one who researches
- Indonesian: peneliti — one who researches
- Irish: taighdeoir — one who researches
- Irish: taighdeora — one who researches
- Italian: ricercatore — one who researches
- Italian: ricercatrice — one who researches
- Japanese: 研究員 (kenkyūin) — one who researches
- Japanese: 研究者 (kenkyūsha) — one who researches
- Kazakh: зерттеуші (zertteuşı) — one who researches
- Khmer: អ្នករុករក (nĕək ruk rɔɔk) — one who researches
- Khmer: អ្នកស្រាវជ្រាវ (nĕək sraaw criəw) — one who researches
- Korean: 연구원 (yeon'guwon) — one who researches
- Korean: 연구자 (yeon'guja) — one who researches
- Kyrgyz: изилдөөчү (izildööcü) — one who researches
- Lao: ນັກຄົ້ນຄວ້າ (nak khon khuā) — one who researches
- Latin: indāgātor — one who researches
- Latin: indāgātrīx — one who researches
- Latvian: pētnieks — one who researches
- Lithuanian: tyrėjas — one who researches
- Lithuanian: tyrinėtojas — one who researches
- Macedonian: истражувач (istražuvač) — one who researches
- Macedonian: истражувачка (istražuvačka) — one who researches
- Malay: penyelidik — one who researches
- Malayalam: ഗവേഷകൻ (gavēṣakaṉ) — one who researches
- Manx: aahirreyder — one who researches
- Māori: kairangahau — one who researches
- Marathi: संशोधक (sauśodhak) — one who researches
- Mongolian: судлаач (sudlaač) — one who researches
- Mongolian: судлагч (sudlagč) — one who researches
- Mongolian: ᠰᠤᠳᠤᠯᠤᠭᠠᠴᠢ (suduluɣači) — one who researches
- Mongolian: ᠰᠤᠳᠤᠯᠤᠭᠴᠢ (suduluɣči) — one who researches
- Norwegian Bokmål: forsker — one who researches
- Occitan: recercaire — one who researches
- Dari: پِژوهِشْگَر (pižōhišgar) — one who researches
- Dari: مُحَقِّق (muhaqqiq) — one who researches
- Iranian Persian: پِژوهِشْگَر (pežuhešgar) — one who researches
- Iranian Persian: مُحَقِّق (mohaġġeġ) — one who researches
- Polish: badacz — one who researches
- Polish: badaczka — one who researches
- Portuguese: pesquisador — one who researches
- Portuguese: pesquisadora — one who researches
- Portuguese: investigador — one who researches
- Portuguese: investigadora — one who researches
- Romanian: cercetător — one who researches
- Romanian: cercetătoare — one who researches
- Russian: иссле́дователь (isslédovatelʹ) — one who researches
- Russian: иссле́довательница (isslédovatelʹnica) — one who researches
- Russian: нау́чный сотру́дник (naúčnyj sotrúdnik) — one who researches
- Russian: нау́чная сотру́дница (naúčnaja sotrúdnica) — one who researches
- Northern Sami: dutki — one who researches
- Serbo-Croatian: истражѝва̄ч — one who researches
- Serbo-Croatian: истражива̀чица — one who researches
- Serbo-Croatian: istražìvāč — one who researches
- Serbo-Croatian: istraživàčica — one who researches
- Slovak: výskumník — one who researches
- Slovak: výskumníčka — one who researches
- Slovak: bádateľ — one who researches
- Slovak: bádateľka — one who researches
- Slovene: raziskovalec — one who researches
- Slovene: raziskovalka — one who researches
- Spanish: investigador — one who researches
- Spanish: investigadora — one who researches
- Swedish: forskare — one who researches
- Swedish: kunskapare — one who researches
- Tajik: муҳаққиқ (muhaqqiq) — one who researches
- Tajik: пажӯҳишгар (pažühišgar) — one who researches
- Tatar: тикшерүче (tikşerüçe) — one who researches
- Thai: นักวิจัย (nák-wí-jai) — one who researches
- Turkish: araştırmacı — one who researches
- Turkish: araştırıcı — one who researches
- Turkish: araştırman — one who researches
- Turkmen: gözlegçi — one who researches
- Ukrainian: дослі́дник (doslídnyk) — one who researches
- Ukrainian: дослі́дниця (doslídnycja) — one who researches
- Ukrainian: науко́вий співробі́тник (naukóvyj spivrobítnyk) — one who researches
- Ukrainian: науко́ва співробі́тниця (naukóva spivrobítnycja) — one who researches
- Urdu: مُحَقِّق (muhaqqiq) — one who researches
- Uyghur: تەتقىقاتچى (tetqiqatchi) — one who researches
- Uzbek: tadqiqotchi — one who researches
- Uzbek: tekshiruvchi — one who researches
- Vietnamese: nhà nghiên cứu — one who researches
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